Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Ubuntu Linux
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 87 107
Rank change year-on-year -28 +20 +6
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 2 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.088% 0.59% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.71% 2.77% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile - £283 -
25th Percentile - £331 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -3.41% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £441 £445
90th Percentile - £444 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Operating Systems
East of England

Ubuntu falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 283 253 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.47% 21.37% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 141 144
10th Percentile £163 £178 £196
25th Percentile £191 £210 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -8.63% +15.88%
75th Percentile £515 £560 £575
90th Percentile £675 £575 £650
England median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 48 47
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.53 £14.31
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.79 £45.63
Median hourly rate £50.67 £54.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -8.75% +196.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £66.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £24.93
% change year-on-year +47.73% -11.74% -41.35%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ubuntu relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the East of England

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire - 2 £850 - 2
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Celery
1 2 (100.00%) Django
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform